I can't help but wonder why there is such silence from progressive as we watch Middle East violence on all sides escalate to dangerous levels. From a self-interest point of view, the current one-sided United States policy is creating new terrorist daily that will threaten us far into the future. Again the MSM does not seem to be doing a very effective job of objectively informing the American people.
It is note worthy, that yesterday some Democrats talked of boycotting the Iraqi Prime Minister's Congressional speech because he spoke sincerely about the facts on the ground.
Juan Cole
http://www.juancole.com/ had a great post today that helps explain the Prime Minister's DAWA background-- information otherwise not easily accessable-- and referred to the boycotters as AIPAC Democrats. Most in this country could not even understand the comment. Here is a fact-filled informative document from two leading authorities that sheds further light on AIPAC, our foreign aid policy, and questions if we as a country are acting in our best interests.
John Mearsheimer is the Wendell Harrison Professor of Political Science at Chicago, and the author of The Tragedy of Great Power Politics.
Stephen Walt is the Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. His most recent book is Taming American Power: The Global Response to US Primacy.
http://www.lrb.co.uk/...
An unedited version of this article is available at http://ksgnotes1.harvard.edu/... or at http://papers.ssrn.com/...